Vanderbilt gives one million dollars to found…
1872 CE
Vanderbilt sees this gift as an olive branch to the South, after he had helped defeat the Confederate States Army with his USS Vanderbilt during the Civil War.
However, he will never visit the university.
He also buys a church for fifty thousand dollars for his second wife's congregation, the Church of the Strangers.
Following his wife's death in 1868, Vanderbilt had gone to Canada where, on August 21, 1869, he married a cousin from Mobile, Alabama, named Frank Armstrong Crawford.
Crawford is forty-three years younger than her husband.
Crawford's cousin's husband, Holland McTyeire, has persuaded Vanderbilt to endow what will become Vanderbilt University, named in his honor.
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